Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then comes a point , if matters continue , where the woman can suddenly experience her resistance crumbling , like a heavy door giving way before a battering ram pounding against it . |
| 2 | So better give her mother time to cool down and not stoke her anger further by trying to defend Molly . |
| 3 | CINDERELLA made it to the ball — and just often enough to avoid her tennis return from becoming a pantomime farce . |
| 4 | The community care and health services work together to give her husband day hospital care , planned breaks in a residential home and sitter services at home . |
| 5 | She rode light in the water despite the extra armour-plate around her bridge and forming fences amidships to protect her commando landing parties where they would crouch on her final run but she was carrying a minimum of fuel and water and her guns were gone except for a 12-pounder forward and oerlikons on the bridge wings . |
| 6 | Her second marriage somewhat disrupted her postgraduate career . |
| 7 | She 'd slip away to the kitchen for tea and be washed and in her nightclothes for seven , just long enough to kiss her daddy goodnight . |
| 8 | One better take her parachute jumping and forgo forget to give her the parachute . |
| 9 | She only kept her wedding ring because one of the robbers dropped it on the way out . |
| 10 | Her rent was ten pounds a week , and the babysitter cost a pound a day , which left three pounds to live on — just enough to pay her grocery bill . |
| 11 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 12 | She had only passed her driving test after her marriage and this was the first time that she had driven unaccompanied by night . |
| 13 | Jean had n't long passed her driving test and I tried to help by pointing out when she should be moving up through the gears . |
| 14 | better put her seat-y belt on then had n't she ? |
| 15 | He followed her into the lift and she counted the floors , wanting only to close her bedroom door behind her . |
| 16 | And , to be honest , one must admit there are cases here … when a wife is ill , for instance. , or when she refuses to perform her duties , thereby causing her husband unhappiness … |
| 17 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 18 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 19 | I 've already heard her mention Woman 's Hour , and wonder how to make contact . |
| 20 | No she does n't have to work , but she , she chooses to work nine till six , I mean she just got her pension thing out did n't she ? |
| 21 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 22 | She was a former council tenant who had already bought her council house . |
| 23 | But even if she 's up , she ai n't dressed properly — she just wears her dressing gown . |
| 24 | I think I might ring Nina I 've just found her home phone number in my book . |
| 25 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 26 | Like some naughty child who 's been caught playing a prank she just kept her head low , staring at the floor . |
| 27 | When she finally put her dessert spoon down on the empty plate , it was disconcerting to look up and see Niall watching her , a glint of amusement in his eyes . |
| 28 | She was just preparing her evening meal when she was aware of someone coming aboard . |
| 29 | I already had her telephone number . |
| 30 | Breeze , of course , already had her afternoon job at the Vicarage , and , as the nurse left soon afterwards , she found herself with her salary increased to fifteen shillings a week and little Nancy to look after , as well as the two boys , and Korah , Dathan and Abiram . |